“Crisis is our daily job”. How is emergency taken into account at an emergency call center ?

How Interns' Logbook Is Completed in Emergency Ward of Imam Khomeini Hospital?

Introduction: Predetermining practical educational objectives and confronting students with equal educational opportunities based on the objectives, thorough logbook is regarded as part of their final evaluation. Investigating the manner of completing different parts of the logbook by interns in emergency ward is the aim of this study. Methods: This descriptive cross-sectional retrospective s...

Local Expertise at an Emergency Call Centre

Some important research has been undertaken in recent years on knowledge management within the CSCW community, drawing attention to the inherently social properties of knowledge and how it is shared. Much of this work has demonstrated the complex and sophisticated needs of so-called knowledge workers, and the requirement for better understandings of knowledge sharing processes. The example we p...

What is an emergency?

The word ‘emergency’ has always been a contentious one. For as long as I can remember, hospitals have tried to deter anyone who wasn’t ‘a real emergency’ from attending their casualty departments. Indeed, they changed their name to ‘Accident and Emergency’ to emphasise this, although everyone still uses the older name anyway, or just ‘A&E’ which somehow lacks the same force. In the same way, ge...

How to Conduct a Successful Emergency Center

Abnormal diagnosis of Emergency Department triage explored with data mining technology: An Emergency Department at a Medical Center in Taiwan taken as an example

Triage helps to classify patients at emergency departments to make the most effective use of resources distributed. What is more important is that accuracy in carrying out triage matters greatly in terms of medical quality, patient satisfaction and life security. As the numbers of patients in emergency departments increase, learning from the examples of abnormal diagnosis of triage in order to ...